1950's Children's Illustration

1950's children's book illustration, is today viewed as a vintage form of drawing. The illustrations from this era, are usually colourful, with very observable shapes, and lines.

The three images below, are examples of 1950's children's book illustration.

http://www.northernstarart.com/detail.php?product=8240 <  image reference at this link.

This image above, which is uncredited, shows illustrations that are simplistic in terms of style, with an outline. Note on the chicken, the simple feather details, are just lines. This resembles a few of my final pieces, like this one for example (*see image at bottom of page, marked with an asterisk)

http://blog.ismoyo.com/2010/01/hippety-hop-around-block.html < image reference at this link.

 http://payload108.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/4460372/04-brzechwa_dzieciom_5.jpg < Image reference at this link.

I believe that going down the hybrid route of 50's illustration, coupled with my own style, will be most beneficial to me, as my work already holds a resemblance to this genre. It features a combination between realistic styled artwork, and cartoon styled artwork. It is also an art genre that interest me, and I think it would tie in with my idea well.
The second image is the one which I want to highlight most out of the examples, as animals is where my illustrative focus will be.

http://image0-rubylane.s3.amazonaws.com/shops/toinetterl/book920.1L.jpg?45 < image reference at this link.

The image above depicts a flat style of artwork, these animal illustrations are more cartoon like. I am aiming to go between cartoon and realistic.

I have a few old children's books that my dad gave to me, and they are around the 50's era. I will take a few photos and upload them below this text, and talk about the style and the colour used.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trywhistlingthis/sets/72157606025064570/ < this link contains a vast amount of children's illustrations from this era.

*This image above details my own use, of using simple lines to indicate detail. I took this influence from existing 1950's illustration styles.

Thomas.